Re: Some thoughts on making Gnome-shell more attractive

[Bob Hazard <linuxoflondon googlemail com>]

The shadows look great, dark grey gets my vote.

I like the idea of decorationless windows in overview mode with
rounded corners a la Palm Pre's cards, but I think you have made the
lower section too complicated.

There is something visceral about the zoom overview that is lost with
sliders and workspace switchers and buttons.

The gmail-style Undo at the top is cute, Aza Raskin remarked in a
presentation how much better this was  than OS dialogue boxes.  How I
wish I could undo a file move in nautilus.

2009/12/14 Brian Fleeger <brianfleeger yahoo com>:
> Hi,
>
> I recently went back and looked at the first drafts of the Gnome-shell [1],
> and it struck me how sophisticated it looked compared to the current all
> black design.  The black looks interesting at first, but does not allow for
> the same visual depth for widgets as with the gray because it is impossible
> to represent shadows, gradations, or depth of any kind.  So I started
> playing with the SVG images from William Jon Mccann's last blog, and made
> some graphical changes.  Anyway, I think this looks a little more "classy,"
> for what its worth.
>
> Mockup: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2553/4183933978_a0191e1965_o.png
>
> Explanation: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2777/4183171961_ec78dbf65c_b.jpg
>
> Although these pictures also contain some UI modifications that I just
> wanted to play with, I really want people to keep thinking creatively about
> the gestalt impression that different colors and shades can create.
> Although the gnome-shell design team may be intentionally leaving the
> overlay black as a blank canvas for individual distributions to fill in (or
> not, I am not sure), I think it may be a good idea to over-design rather
> than under-design, to show downstream distributions what is possible and
> provide a reference.
>
> Regards,
> Brian
>
> [1] http://live.gnome.org/Boston2008/GUIHackfest/WindowManagementAndMore
>
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